Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the United States must pay for what he described as recent US aggression on Qeshm Island in southern Iran. The remarks were reported on July 31, 2026, citing Iranian state media, which said Ghalibaf made the statement on his virtual page.

Ghalibaf wrote that the United States was making its hands “more bloody” through new acts of aggression every day. He described an attack on a residential house on Qeshm Island as a terrorist attack and said it was a continuation of crimes in Minab and Lamerd.

The speaker also said that, in response to what they were receiving as “slaps” on the battlefield, they were committing crimes and shedding the blood of innocent people. He reiterated that the United States would have to pay a price for these actions. The report named Press TV as its source.